Several students are protesting the decision by Boston College to not renew the contract of an adjunct professor in its School of Theology and Ministry who has openly questioned why the Catholic church wont ordain women.

The Boston College mission statement on its website talks about the Jesuit foundation of the school that makes it unique. It reads: No other institution so explicitly embodies the fundamental human desire to know.

But after Father John Shea, a professor of pastoral care and counseling, asked church leaders for a theological explanation for why women are not being ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic church, he was let go. After nine years, Shea will leave his position at the end of this semester. He refused to comment.

The school says, as a matter of policy, it does not discuss personnel decisions. But several of the BC students who are protesting the decision say theres a climate of intolerance at the Jesuit university around openly discussing sensitive issues such as the ordination of women.

I think the reason he was let go was because he was causing trouble, said John Falcone, who worked as a graduate assistant with Shea.

Last year Shea wrote directly to Cardinal Sean OMalley, telling him that he would step aside from active ministry until women are allowed to be ordained. Falcone says Shea has since paid a price for this position.

Twenty years ago, my wife and I helped to organize a debate on abortion between Peter Kreeft and an openly Marxist professor of sociology from BC. Guess which BC professor was surrounded by a bunch of student groupies?

"Twenty years ago, my wife and I helped to organize a debate on abortion between Peter Kreeft and an openly Marxist professor of sociology from BC. Guess which BC professor was surrounded by a bunch of student groupies?"

That's wierd. Peter Kreeft rocks and I though he had a pretty strong following. His books are great especially his commentary on Pascal's Pensees.

This is a good first step. ALL CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS should not only throw out all teachers not in line with the teachings of the Church but seriously start to question the incoming students. Why? Sandra Fluke.

If the left and the Obama Administration are going to try and force their beliefs onto a religious institution and onto religious people illegally, then it's about time those same institutions THROW OUT the children and supporters of that same forced moral relativism. FIGHT BACK!

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posted on 03/08/2012 5:43:34 AM PST
by Solson
(The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)

A PR move. If he was an adjunct, it means non-tenured. They are contracted semester-by-semester, though possibly he might have had some arrangement more steady than that, but certainly not protection of tenure. So he can readily be non-renewed.

And yes, if he was on a sessional contracts, then he was not “fired” but simply not contracted again. Sessional positions have no presumption of renewal, though de facto he may well have been treated as a steady renewal and this breaks that.

But it’s mostly inconsequential as far as BC is concerned—a PR plus for the broad middle of the constituency and the only downside is with the really radical feminists who haven’t given up on women’s ordination yet (despite infallible papal pronouncements in 1976 and 1994, clarified as irreformable by a later official response to a “dubium” [request for clarification]).

If Obama is reelected, the American Catholic Church will be the only legal form of Catholic worship allowed.

The failure of the Church to solve the problem of the “dissidents”, who are innumerable and who have infiltrated every single sector of Catholic society in America has left the Church open to a government-sponsored revolution, a hostile takeover by traitor bishops and clergy - and that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

“This is a good first step. ALL CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS should ... throw out all teachers not in line with the teachings, etc ....

Well said! It will be a difficult task since many Catholic colleges sold their souls to the state at the Land O Lakes conference in the 60’s when they stopped being run by their Orders, went to lay boards, and accepted gov’t money. This has become so entrenched that it is most likely impossible for many to reform. We might have to start fresh - Ave Maria, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al.

We do need to FIGHT BACK, yet this might be a better strategy, maybe not, just thoughts.

I’d like to see somebody (the local bishop, in other words) get after his order on disciplining him, or otherwise withdrawing from the diocese. Even a religious order can only operate in a diocese with the permission of the bishop.

. . . after Father John Shea, a professor of pastoral care and counseling, asked church leaders for a theological explanation for why women are not being ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic church . . .

This being the case, he is too dumb to teach grade school, let alone in college. This has been explained over and over, including by Blessed JPII in several apostolic letters.

The guy is an adjunct professor. Meaning he has a yearly contract. He not only doesn’t have tenure, but he’s not in line for a tenure decision.

They have kept this jerk on for many years, and obviously approved of his dissident teachings. He just made the mistake of going too far this time, and the College knew they’d be in trouble from the bishop if they gave him still another year of teaching heresies to their students.

BC still is a mess. They have only let troublemakers go over the years when things got too hot to handle.

Notice that “several” students are objecting. What’s that? Two? Three? The students are probably more faithful than most of the faculty, although the faculty are working on fixing that.

You have it. Most Catholics dont know it, but the reason why Protestants have no trouble with women preachers is that they are all laity. It was mere social convention that prevented them from ever doing it, that an some comments by Paul. But we have been a hierarchical church since the beginning. If Jesus is the new Moses and the new Aaron. The big difference between the levitical priesthood and the priesthood of Jesus being it is not hereditary, but appointive. Except for the Anglo-Catholics in the Episcopal Church, all this smacks of priest-craft and usurpation. But history seems to bear us out. Which is why the gnostics-freaks are trying to re-write that history, so that Christian history is made to seem like that Sunni-=Schia split.

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